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Okay guys I've got an annoyed thread about changes of media ownership and not owning your own work or how it is displayed online.
I worked for a place called Fusion that was owned by Univision. Univision later bought Gizmodo Media Group, merged it w/Fusion & migrated all of our http://fusion.net stories over to http://Splinternews.com . Which was painful because that url & it erased views stories had.
Splinter went on to become a quite good political commentary site with a very strange archive of non-political stories like mine. But then Gizmodo Media Group got bought by a private equity firm which shuttered Splinter and laid off its staff.
Now, for some reason, all the images have been taken down from Splinter's archives and replaced with the message, "This image was removed due to legal reasons." I asked current lawyer at what is now G/O Media why. Reply: "Splinter is no longer an entity." What ever that means.
So now, as I cover the failures of facial recognition, I wanted to link to a (funny) story I wrote years ago about my doppelgänger tracking me down on the internet (without the benefit of face recognition tech), but the story kind of sucks without visuals. https://splinternews.com/how-my-doppelganger-used-the-internet-to-find-and-befri-1793848163
:/ So I encourage all you journalists, particularly at precarious publications, to archive your work. Luckily, @xor was a wonderful resource on this for me.
Thank goodness for orgs dedicated to preserving digital archives: https://archive.is/l5iOV
